Linshui County
Linshui County (simplified Chinese: 邻水县; traditional Chinese: 鄰水縣; pinyin: Línshuǐ Xiàn) is a county in the east of Sichuan province, China, administratively governed by the prefecture-level city of Guang'an; it is the easternmost county-level division of Guang'an, bordering Chongqing municipality to the east.
Linshui County
邻水县 | |
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.png.webp) Location of Linshui County (red) in Guang'an City (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Linshui Location of the seat in Sichuan | |
| Coordinates: 30°17′N 106°59′E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture-level city | Guang'an |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,919.22 km2 (741.01 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
The county, which is not large, is accessible via a four-hour shuttle coach riding on the Chengnan expressway from Chengdu (Shiling public bus station) and a two-hour driving from the municipality city Chongqing on the south. The county is rich in natural resources, and has reservoirs of coal and sweet natural gas.
Strategically, Linshui County is on the only path out of Sichuan province in the east, as the connecting point between Dazhou and Chongqing. The local economy is largely dependent on livestock and agricultural farming.
Transportation
Due to the peculiar local terrain—a series of parallel mountain ranges running in the SW to NE direction --, most roads in the area run in the valleys, also in the SW-NE direction. The G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway runs through Linshui County, but no railway does. The closest railway to Linshui, the Xiangyang–Chongqing line, runs west of these ranges, outside of the county's borders; the closest railway station, in Huaying, is almost 30 km (19 mi) away by road, and has very limited service.[1]
Plans exist for a high speed railway (Dazhou-Chongqing Intercity Railway, 达渝城际铁路) that would run from Chongqing to Dazhou, roughly parallel to the older Xiangyang–Chongqing Railway. In early May 2015, Linshui people learned that the railway would be routed (i.e. the valley in which it will run) was to be via Guang'an, hometown of Deng Xiaoping. Tens of thousands of residents marched in protest and were met by violent attacks by local police, including a Special Police Unit team, with two people reported dead. A violent reaction followed and the confrontation lasted all day and well into the night with many police cars damaged.[2][3]
Climate
| Climate data for Linshui (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) |
23.6 (74.5) |
32.0 (89.6) |
35.5 (95.9) |
36.4 (97.5) |
36.9 (98.4) |
39.4 (102.9) |
42.0 (107.6) |
41.6 (106.9) |
34.2 (93.6) |
25.7 (78.3) |
18.7 (65.7) |
42.0 (107.6) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 9.2 (48.6) |
12.2 (54.0) |
17.2 (63.0) |
22.7 (72.9) |
26.2 (79.2) |
28.9 (84.0) |
32.6 (90.7) |
32.9 (91.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
21.3 (70.3) |
16.3 (61.3) |
10.3 (50.5) |
21.4 (70.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) |
8.6 (47.5) |
12.6 (54.7) |
17.6 (63.7) |
21.2 (70.2) |
24.2 (75.6) |
27.3 (81.1) |
27.2 (81.0) |
22.9 (73.2) |
17.6 (63.7) |
12.9 (55.2) |
7.7 (45.9) |
17.2 (62.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 4.3 (39.7) |
6.2 (43.2) |
9.5 (49.1) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.8 (64.0) |
21.0 (69.8) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.3 (73.9) |
19.9 (67.8) |
15.3 (59.5) |
10.7 (51.3) |
5.8 (42.4) |
14.3 (57.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
0.0 (32.0) |
4.9 (40.8) |
9.1 (48.4) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.8 (64.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
3.7 (38.7) |
0.4 (32.7) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 19.5 (0.77) |
24.0 (0.94) |
55.2 (2.17) |
103.2 (4.06) |
173.0 (6.81) |
205.5 (8.09) |
179.5 (7.07) |
137.5 (5.41) |
133.0 (5.24) |
105.2 (4.14) |
55.2 (2.17) |
21.4 (0.84) |
1,212.2 (47.71) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 10.5 | 9.9 | 11.9 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 15.7 | 12.7 | 11.3 | 12.9 | 16.1 | 11.9 | 11.3 | 154 |
| Average snowy days | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 86 | 82 | 79 | 79 | 81 | 83 | 79 | 76 | 82 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 82 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 22.9 | 34.1 | 73.6 | 108.4 | 113.7 | 107.6 | 174.7 | 183.4 | 107.3 | 60.7 | 48.4 | 24.4 | 1,059.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 7 | 11 | 20 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 41 | 45 | 29 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[4][5] | |||||||||||||
Notes
- Schedule for Huaying Archived 2015-03-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
- China: Massive Protest in Linshui Intense Repression and Resistance Archived 2015-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Revolution News, Jennifer Baker, 15 Jun 2015
- Protesters in Southwest China Rally to Demand Railroad Link, By AUSTIN RAMZY MAY 18, 2015
- 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.